• This article is the subject of a legal complaint from Fleurette
Properties Limited.

Glencore Xstrata helped to pave the way for a cut-price deal that has led to
$71 million in mining royalties going to its joint venture partner instead
of the world’s poorest country.

Fleurette Group, controlled by Dan Gertler, an Israeli diamond tycoon, bought
a stake in a Glencore-operated copper and cobalt mine in the Democratic
Republic of Congo from the state mining company in 2011.

The sale of the 20 per cent stake in Mutanda has attracted suspicions of
corruption because the acquisition price was below most